{"id":43404,"title":"I Like You Like Cold Tea","description":"by Matteo Delred","content":"

by Matteo Delred<\/p>

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i accidentally dunked<\/p>

my sleeve in a cup of tea,<\/p>

moving a pile of clothes<\/p>

from my bed to desk and back.<\/p>

A lazy, Sisyphus-like task,<\/p>

as a podcast tells me<\/p>

in Japan, there\u2019s a minster<\/p>

for loneliness.<\/p>

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A ladybird<\/p>

perched on my lapel -<\/p>

an omen, perhaps,<\/p>

that i blew away,<\/p>

like a birthday wish.<\/p>

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i take photographs<\/p>

of autumn leaves<\/p>

settled on a three-legged chair,<\/p>

while a learner driver<\/p>

struggles with parallel parking.<\/p>

We both take our time,<\/p>

trying to get it right.<\/p>

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My headphones keep talking to me,<\/p>

a most polite rage<\/p>

against their dying of the light.<\/p>

\u201clow battery, please charge,\u201d<\/p>

interrupting the music<\/p>

with a moment\u2019s silence<\/p>

as if to perform their own last rite.<\/p>

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Hobbled and humbled<\/p>

with one done-in leg,<\/p>

eyes closed, breathing.<\/p>

A man clapped me<\/p>

into consciousness,<\/p>

telling me the green man<\/p>

has already passed.<\/p>","urlTitle":"cold-tea","url":"\/blog\/cold-tea\/","editListUrl":"\/my-blogs","editUrl":"\/my-blogs\/edit\/cold-tea\/","fullUrl":"https:\/\/lostcampitos.com\/blog\/cold-tea\/","featured":false,"published":true,"showOnSitemap":true,"hidden":false,"visibility":null,"createdAt":1728948712,"updatedAt":1731164690,"publishedAt":1731164689,"lastReadAt":null,"division":{"id":209850,"name":"Lost Campitos"},"tags":[{"id":2886,"code":"matteo","name":"Matteo","url":"\/blog\/tagged\/matteo\/"}],"metaImage":{"original":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/z0be5cqejoau4iozv9lqigyyzp2zabk4wb1paep5kcho1zi6.png","thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/z0be5cqejoau4iozv9lqigyyzp2zabk4wb1paep5kcho1zi6.png.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/z0be5cqejoau4iozv9lqigyyzp2zabk4wb1paep5kcho1zi6.png.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"metaTitle":"I Like You Like Cold Tea","metaDescription":"","keyPhraseCampaignId":null,"series":[],"similarReads":[{"id":24851,"title":"Love","url":"\/blog\/love\/","urlTitle":"love","division":209850,"description":"Artist Matteo Delred and writer Rebecca Mar\u00eda reflect on love. Exploring different types of love, as defined by the Ancient Greeks.","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/umrjnxs7qyv4mmajjpiopam85mxhwjzxx4c4dkt4pztfvz5q.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/umrjnxs7qyv4mmajjpiopam85mxhwjzxx4c4dkt4pztfvz5q.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0},{"id":24941,"title":"Catching On the Fly","url":"\/blog\/catching-on-the-fly\/","urlTitle":"catching-on-the-fly","division":209850,"description":"Writer, Rebecca W Morris, and Photographer, Matteo Delred, capture thoughts and images at the train stops from Jerez de la Frontera to Cadiz on the Cercanias trainline. For each stop, one piece of writing is written and one photo is chosen. Seeing the same things they\u2019d seen so many times, but with new eyes.","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/hxf4vqbdejmlykd3ffgu1m8pfwvwi6xgvo0kqtnu50cygkce.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/hxf4vqbdejmlykd3ffgu1m8pfwvwi6xgvo0kqtnu50cygkce.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0},{"id":25084,"title":"Listening To the Birdsong From My Caged Window","url":"\/blog\/listening-to-the-birdsong-from-my-caged-window\/","urlTitle":"listening-to-the-birdsong-from-my-caged-window","division":209850,"description":"Matteo Delred and Rebecca W Morris capture the urban melancholy of being separated from the natural world through poetry and photography.","published":true,"metaImage":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/7txvyg55ntk060bcks3mlugsnxi48onvirhfqfsftpnzp0ov.jpeg.jpg?w=1140&h=855","banner":"https:\/\/images.podos.io\/7txvyg55ntk060bcks3mlugsnxi48onvirhfqfsftpnzp0ov.jpeg.jpg?w=1920&h=1440"},"hidden":0}],"labels":[]}